Carmichel are seeking a Site Agent to join the team working on various Water frameworks within the Kent and Sussex area.
The Site Agent will be responsible for managing the construction site to achieve the required project delivery in line with customers’ objectives, while maintaining standards of health and safety, quality, environmental impact, and cost control. You will be responsible for delivering various projects to the specified quality, within the required programme, and with maximum commercial performance.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Contracts Manager/Project Manager, engineers, and quantity surveyors to ensure that projects are completed in a safe manner whilst customer requirements and expectations are always maintained or exceeded.
Site Management
Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of various projects in the Civils and Water sectors
Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
When required, lead a team of Sub Agents, Engineers, and Foremen to deliver the work safely without environmental incidents, and to the specified quality.
Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, and ITP as well as Waste Management Plans, when specified, in line with Company procedures
Ensure the commercial performance of the contract is maximised
Produce and manage the project construction programme as well as produce a 2-week look-ahead.
Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete the tasks
Cost control
Populate and manage the cost plan for the project
Maximise project value
Ensure detailed site diaries/records are completed
Maintain commercial tension to drive out cost and challenge the status quo
Endeavour to spot and highlight value engineering opportunities
Reporting
Produce good quality, accurate monthly reports internally and for the Client
Chair weekly site meetings in line with Company procedures
Experience of working within Civil Engineering and as a Site Agent for a contractor, delivering projects in a highly regulated environment
CEng MICE, or equivalent
Knowledge of Primavera P6 software
Understanding of JCT and NEC forms of contract
